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ANDREW BENSON, OF BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOVHIRAM WFEATON, JR., OFBRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAND-REEL FOR OILOR ARTESlAN-WELLS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Ifatent No. 712,480, dated November 4, 1902. Application ledMay` 24, 1898. Serial No. 681,632. (No modali) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW BENSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Bradford, in the county of McKean and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sand-Reels `for Oil or Artesian Wells, of which the following is a specification. t

My invention relates to reels on which the sand-pump line is spooled; and the object of my improvement is to provide for the oil and Artesian well operator a strong, effective, and satisfactory sand-reel, particularly to those who do deep-well drilling. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a top view of a portion of an oil or Artesian well drilling rig and shows my sand-reel and its connections in conjunction with the band-wheel from which it gets its motive power. Fig. 2 represents a back elevation of my sand-reel, its-connections, and its position relative to the band-wheel. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of a portion of the band-wheel, showing the outside jackpost, the rig-iron shaft, ange, and vcrank, the sand-reel knuckle-post, the lower portion of the sand-reel lever by which the sand-reel is operated, also the guide-arms and the back brake. Fig. 4 represents a transverse section of the driven wheel, the periphery consisting of peculiarly-constructed laggings, specified hereinafter. Fig. 5 represents an end View of the driven wheel, provided with flanged rings for holding the laggings in place. Fig. 6 represents a diametrical cross-section View of one of the flanged r-ings shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 7 represents a face view of the universaljoint gudgeon. Fig. 8 represents a view of the universal-joint gudgeons with portions in cross section. Fig. 9. represents an inside view of the iiangeddisk of the gudgeons and shows the lugs which enter the recesses provided on the ends 'of the wood shafts. Fig.

10 represents a perspective side view of alagging after it is formed to receive the iiange.l

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Numeral 1 is a portion of the main sill of an oil or Artesian well drilling rig.

2 is a portion of4 the sub or counter sill.

`It is provided with the slot 12, in which the 65 sand-reel lever 13 is movably secured by the bolt 14.

15 is the draw-bar, which extends into the derrick and is operated by the driller with a hand-lever. (Not shown.) l 7o 16 is the sand-reel jack-post, secured to the counter-sill 2.

17 is the sand-reel tail-post, secured to the tail-sill 5.

18 represents the braces, fastenedto the 75 tail-post 17 and to the sill 5 in the usual manner.

19 is a cylindrical shaft movably secured to the sand-reel lever 13 by a sand-reel gudgeon (shown by the dotted lines20) at itsone 8o end and at its other end by the universaljoint sand-reel gudgeon 3l, as shown-in the several views, but more fully in Figs. 7 and 8, and explained below. 21 is a driven wheel `permanently secured 85 on the shaft 19 and is actuatedbya frictionbearing against the periphery of,thejbandwheel 7. It is operated by thedrillerfinthe derrick, who pulls on the drawf-bar'lrpwhich is, as stated, connected to the sand-reellever 9c `13. This contacts the driven Wheel`2l-with the band-wheel 7, causing it to rotate. A reverse movement of the draw-barwl will frelease the driven wheel 21 from itscontact with the band-wheel 7 and throws it against 95 the back-brake 22, (see Fig. 3,) which arrests its motion. The driven wheel 2l is a solid wheel, and the portion of shaft 19 on which it is built is flattened,'as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the object of which is to prevent the driven roo wheel from turning on the shaft 19. It is provided on its periphery with the laggings l 32, (see Fig. 10,) which are constructed with the projecting end lugs 33. The back brake 22 is at its lower end fixedlysecured, by means ot" the staple 24, to the cross-bar 23, which is secured to the main sill 1 and the subsill 2, and at its upper end to the cross-bar 25 by means of the staple 26, the cross-bar 25 being shown in Fig. 2 as attached to the uprights 27. The driven wheel 21 is further provided with the side rings 34.' These rings are provided `on their periphery with the fianges 35, which fit over the lugs 33 of the laggings- 32 and prevent them from dying off from the driven wheel 21v in its rapid revolution. The rings 34 are held in place by the ring-bolts 36. In order to prevent the laggings 32 from sliding on the periphery ofthe driven wheel 2l, the bolt 51 is inserted through the outer edges of the rings 34 and between two of the laggings 32, as shown in Fig. 5, thus holding them in check in case of their shrinking,

` 28 is the sand-line spooling-shaft, provided with the several arms 29, which keep the several ends of the coils of the sand-line in place. It is supported at its one end in the tail-post 17 by the gudgeon (shown in Figs. 1 and 2 by the dotted lines 30) and at its other end by the universal-joint sandreel gudgeon 3l. The object of the universal-joint sand-reel gudg'eon is, rst, to permit the driven Wheel 21, which is a su bstitute for the brake-wheel of the ordinary sand-reel, to be constructed with a rectilineal face, so that its friction-bearing will engage squarely with the face of the band-wheel 7, the shaft 19 being at right au gies therewith; second, to permit the spooling-shaft 2S to be set at such an angle with the top of the derrick as to perfectly spool the sand-pump line. The universal-joint sand-reel gudgeons (see Figs. 7 and 8)-consist of the flanged disks 37 and 3S. These disks, as shown in Figs. S and 9, are provided on their inner side with .the projecting lugs 39, which fit into recesses made in the ends of the shafts 19 and 28, and thereby relieve the Vbolts that hold the Hanged disks 37 and 3S in place from a side strain when the said shafts are revolving. Integral with the flanged disk 3S is the projection 40. This is provided with two pins, one of which, 4l, is illustrated in Figs. rfand 8, the other being diametrically opposite and further provided with a semispherical head, as shown by the dotted line 42. The flanged disk 37 is provided with its journal 43, which is supported by the sandreel jack-post 16, said journal being provided with the enlarged projection 45, having integral therewith or fixedly secured thereto the two pins 46 and 47, which are at an angle of forty-ive degrees with the pins of the projection 40 and is provided on its end with a concave socket, in which the semispherical end of the projection 40 works.

48 and 49 are two rings bolted together tting over the projections 40 and 45 and provided with four oblong slots, (indicated by the numeral 50,) in which the pins play.

The method of operating my sand-reel is simple and is as follows: The driller by pulling on the draw-bar l5 contacts the driven wheel with the band-wheel. This by means of the universal-joint sand-reel gudgeon causes the spooling-shaft 28 to revolve in conjunction with the driven wheel, which winds up the sand-line after the sand pump or bailer has been raised from the well. A reverse movement of the draw-bar will throw the driven wheel against the back brake 22, and the motion'of the spooling-shaft is arrested.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a Wellrig the combination with a band-wheel and a brake device, of a rotatable spooling-shaft comprising xed and oscillating members, and a driven wheel upon the latter member adapted to engage either said band-wheel or said brake device,substantially as described.

2. In a Well-rig the combination with a band-Wheel and a brake device, of a rotatable spooling-shaft comprising a fixed and an oscillating member connected bya universal joint, and a driven wheel upon the oscillating member adapted to engage either said band- Wheel or said brake device, substantially as described.

3. In a well-rig the combination with a band-wheel and a back brake, of a rotatable spooling-shaft comprising a fixed and an oscillating member, of a driven wheel upon the latter, and an operating-lever for shifting said oscillating member and driven wheel to or from either the band-wheel or the back brake, substantially as described.

ANDREV BENSON.

Vitnesses:

BEN. R. HAGAR, .HIRAM W. EATON, Jr.

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